Kumar Bijayanta

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Bengaluru, Karnataka, India20 yrs 2 mos experience

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Key Highlights

18 years of experience in engineering leadership.
Successfully built and scaled complex SaaS platforms.
Delivered AI-powered products from the ground up.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and AI-focused engineering leader with extensive cloud architecture experience.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud ArchitectureDevopsArtificial Intelligence (ai)Team ManagementSoftware EngineeringDatabase Design

Other Skills

PythonSparkAWSAzure DevOpsC# .NETTypeScriptJavaScriptSSRSCloudBigdataHTMLCSSReact.jsNode.jsNginx

About

I’m a hands-on, deeply technical engineering leader with a passion for building scalable, high-performance systems that solve real-world problems. With 18 years of experience across startups and Fortune 500 companies, I've led global teams, built and scaled complex SaaS platforms, and delivered AI-powered products from the ground up. Currently leading engineering efforts at Deloitte, I manage cross-functional teams of frontend and backend developers, data engineers, DevOps engineers and QAs to deliver enterprise-grade tax systems, leveraging modern cloud, big data, and DevOps practices. Previously, I founded NewsInABlink, an AI-driven platform delivering multi-language audio news summaries, and built an alternative cloud offering with bare-metal GPU servers at a fraction of traditional cloud costs. At Ellucian, I built and scaled cloud/SaaS operations from scratch—managing 20+ products, thousands of customers, and over 10,000 servers—while achieving 99.9%+ SLA, 95% incident reduction, and near-zero attrition. I’m passionate about innovation, team mentorship, and aligning technology with business goals through hands-on, strategic leadership. My expertise spans AWS, Azure, Python, Java, Kubernetes, Spark, machine learning/AI, distributed systems, and more.

Experience

20 yrs 2 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 8 mos

Average Tenure

2 yrs 7 mos

Current Experience

Arroyo consulting

Engineering Leader

Nov 2024 – Present · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

Leading software engineering teams for Deloitte’s GA Incentive tax system in India.
Managing agile teams comprising frontend and backend developers, data engineers, DevOps and QAs, building this product utilizing Cloud, Bigdata and other technologies.
Driving cross-functional collaboration across Product, Program, Architecture, Security, Performance, Business Analysis, and Tax Consulting teams to ensure successful delivery of a highly complex product.
Leading the full lifecycle development and technical delivery of a scalable, enterprise-grade SaaS product.
Tech stack – Full Stack | Python| Spark (Hadoop) | AWS (EMR, Glue, Aurora, Redshift, Kafka, Lambda, ECS, etc)| Azure DevOps/CI/CD | C# .NET | TypeScript | JavaScript | SSRS | Bold.

PythonSparkAWSAzure DevOpsC# .NETTypeScript+4

Newsinablink.com

Founder, newsinablink.com

Oct 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

NewsInABlink.com summarizes news articles for focused reading - no ads, no distraction.
 Built an affordable public cloud offering bare-metal servers and virtual machines with optional GPUs at 80% lower prices compared to major cloud providers.
 Launched an AI-driven platform summarizing news articles, translating them to other languages and to audio.
 Architected the site using distributed microservices across on-prem and cloud environments.
 Developed UI, backend APIs, and database queries. Implemented and optimized NLP/LLM models.
Tech stack– HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React.js, Node.js, Python, Nginx, MySQL, Torch, TensorFlow, Docker, AWS, KVM, Hyper-V, Kubernetes, PostGreSQL, Linux.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)HTMLCSSJavaScriptReact.jsNode.js+13

Ellucian

3 roles

Senior Manager, Cloud Engineering

Jul 2019 – Jun 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos

 Led a 30+ member team managing cloud operations for Ellucian's 20+ SaaS software, consistently achieving over 99.9% uptime SLA. Strategized and executed release, incident, and postmortem processes.
 Held accountability of cloud infrastructure and hosted apps – over 10000 VMs, containers, databases, storage.

Director, Cloud Engineering

Promoted

Oct 2017 – Sep 2024 · 6 yrs 11 mos

 Ellucian is a software product company with over 24 million users, 2900 customers in 50+ countries.
 Led India cloud engineering team, architecting and running cloud solutions, accountable for successful operations of its SaaS products.
o Implemented DevOps practices, IaC, CI/CD pipelines, containerized apps, setup SRE team.
o Reduced production incidents by 95%, reduced labor cost by 70%, ~0% team attrition.
 Collaborated with cross-functional teams to create and implement long-term cloud strategy.
Tech stack – AWS, Python, Java, c#, Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform, Docker containers, Datadog, DataDog, Tomcat, Nginx, IIS, Oracle, SQL Server, Aurora, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Kubernetes.

AWSPythonJavaC#JenkinsAnsible+14

Manager, Cloud Engineering

Oct 2017 – Jun 2019 · 1 yr 8 mos

 Led a team of 8 engineers focusing on Ellucian’s ERP SaaS products.
 Architected and migrated on-prem monolith applications to microservices based SaaS application.

Cloud ArchitectureTeam ManagementInfrastructure AutomationSystem and Database DesignAWSAzure+3

Encora inc.

2 roles

Program Manager

Jun 2015 – Oct 2017 · 2 yrs 4 mos

 Led a team of 20+ to deliver 7 Azure/AWS native software projects.
 Created RFPs, managed customer relationships and cloud migration projects.

Cloud Architect

Jun 2015 – Jun 2016 · 1 yr

 Architected cloud-based solutions and migrated customer applications to cloud.

Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)Agile MethodologiesSoftware engineeringFull-Stack DevelopmentSoftware Engineering

Microsoft

SQL Server SE, Azure SE, PFE

May 2008 – Jun 2015 · 7 yrs 1 mo · Bangalore

Consulted Microsoft’s enterprise customers on designing, implementing, and supporting, highly available, optimally performing, Azure-based solution architectures for PaaS, IaaS or SaaS.
Expertise in cloud, database design, data modelling, query optimization, troubleshooting performance and other database issues, designing disaster recovery setup, and SQL Server setup and installation.

Database designperformanceoptimizationDatabase Design

Ibm

Oracle Database Administator

Aug 2006 – May 2008 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bangalore

Supported over 1000 databases on multiple platforms, ranging up to Terabyte size.
Role required writing shell scripts for automation, configuring high availability, Database tuning, optimization, installation, and maintenance. Oracle, Unix flavors.
Was selected best ELTP in a batch of over 40 engineers and contributed to over 4 teams in less than a year.